New optical waveguide design based on wavefront matching method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3511-3518

  Sakamaki, Yohei ^a   Saida, Takashi ^a   Hashimoto, Toshikazu ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Design methodology; Optical planar waveguides

Indexed keywords

LENSES; OPTICAL DESIGN; WAVEFRONTS;

WAGUIDE PATTERN; WAVEFRONT MATCHING METHOD; WAVEGUIDE CROSSING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 37249054330     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.906798     Document Type: Article

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